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Record W2109722189

TRUST AND COOPERATION RELATIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF LEBANON

2014· article· en· W2109722189 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueEuropean Scientific Journal ESJ · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicReproductive Health and Technologies
Canadian institutionsKwantlen Polytechnic UniversityFraser Health
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInfertilityFertilityCoping (psychology)Focus groupQualitative researchMedicinePsychologySocial psychologyFamily medicineClinical psychologyEnvironmental healthPopulationSociologyPregnancySocial science
DOInot available

Abstract

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Infertility is a major problem that affects families in Kenya. In Kisumu district, high prevalence rate of infertility and the desire to depart from over-emphasis on fertility studies are the primary reasons for the study. The study aimed at establishing the level of knowledge on the meaning of infertility and assessing the socio-cultural beliefs and practices that predispose people to infertility. In addition, the research focused on the consequences of infertility besides examining the coping strategies used by persons suffering from infertility. A descriptive research was used to describe characteristics of events and experiences of couples faced with the consequences of infertility. Thereafter, the data was organized, tabulated, interpreted and described. Similarly, the study relied on a mixed method design which involves intergrating both qualitative and quantitative techniques. In particular, the study employed the use of semi-structured questionnaires to gather information from 200 respondents. Six Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) comprising of 10-12 individuals were conducted. Admittedly, the study revealed that although people in Kisumu district accord great significance to childbearing, they have low level of knowledge on the meaning of infertility, predisposing factors and appropriate treatment options. Infertile couples and individuals suffered socially, psychologically and economically. For instance, high cost of treatment was reported as a major economic challenge, and failure to raise huge amounts of money for diagnosis and treatment fueled adoption of medically unproven coping strategies. Socially, infertility poses serious threat to marital stability among childless couples. Issues of social isolation and stigmatization were also reported by the respondents as common phenomena. Few individuals especially who recognized infertility as a biological disorder sought medical treatment in health centres while majority relied on traditonal interventions. Establishment of infertility policy and improvement in diagnosis, treatment, education, counselling and foster care services are recommended in addressing consequences of childbearing problems in Kisumu district. The study concludes that several factors predispose couples to infertility and that infertility is nolonger an urban phenomenon, nor is it confined to women only.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.577
Threshold uncertainty score0.154

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.250
Teacher spread0.234 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it